Factors Affecting Investment Decisions in the Stock Exchange
Stock markets always play a crucial role in the growth and stability of a country's economy. The development of the stock market encourages capital accumulation, efficient use of resources and promotion of economic growth. The rise of stock market can increase opportunities for investment and expansion for industries, thus creating more jobs and increasing the purchasing capacity of the people. On the other hand, stock market crashes throughout history have caused economic slowdowns, recessions, unemployment, curbed consumer spending etc. In basic terms, when people choose to invest their savings into the stock market instead of keeping the money at home, the funds become an active part of the economy as they become available to industries for use in productive purposes. In Bangladesh, the total market capitalization or worth of all the companies listed on Dhaka Stock Exchange alone stands at an impressive $50 billion. However, in Bangladesh experienced massive downturns in the stock exchange in 2010. The predominantly bullish market (characterized by large and powerful investors) turned bearish (characterized by loss of investor confidence and a consistent decline in the value of stocks). Millions of small investors lost millions in equity and it is popular belief that the whole incident was a scam and resulted from government negligence. As such, the aim of this paper was to search for the factors that affect the buying behavior of investors and to see whether investor choices were grounded in fact or fiction. As such, the research was conducted on a sample of 80 investors covering different demographic avenues ranging from age, years of education, monthly income, marital status and some other characteristics. The research team identified 6 broad factors of investment choices further broken down into small variables of measurement.
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